Thanks, then sort of like eating watermellon outside on the back porch, no?
Watermellon, definitely an outdoor fruit.
I’m single, and I’ve definitely been known to eat over the sink. Sometimes I’ll eat ramen noodles or spaghetti and meat sauce directly out of the pots I cooked them in, and I almost always eat fruit over the sink, to catch the inevitable dripping. Sandwiches, leftovers, whatever–it’s all fair game to stand and eat. I also sometimes line pots and pans and casserole-type dishes with aluminum foil, to leave a few less things to wash at the end.
Ditto–with my older son, when he is home, but only if he is both starving and in a hurry. He can be civilized; he even enjoys cooking. But sometimes food is just something to be quickly ingested before you go on to other business at hand.
I remembering doing it now and then in my single days, when I was short of time, didn’t want to do dishes, etc.
When I was single I just had a sink, no dishwasher. It was a long time ago.
Interesting…
As for the “It’s a guy thing” comment, I’m a guy! And I don’t eat standing up (see below). But, it is fun to find a real life correlation to this previously thought (by me) fictional occurance.
Okay, I may walk out to the car or the park while eating an apple or a pop tart or something, or walk and talk and eat at the fair, or stand around at a BBQ or picnic, but that’s all still leisurely eating or keeping it away from the dogs. If I’m at home and I fix something, either as a meal or a snack, I sit and enjoy it.
Maybe my singleosity isn’t wired right.
Totally a matter of convenience. When I was single, there were two types of eating: (1) eating as pleasurable sensory activity, and (2) eating to keep me from dying, aka “subsistence eating.” Obviously, (1) involved cooking and plates and spices and such.
Option (2), though, was done over the sink as often as possible; I even slimmed down preparation techniques for my favorite dishes to minimize the number of utensils/dishes they required, to keep cleanup to a minimum.
I’ve often wished for some kind of Purina Bachelor Chow (as promised on Futurama): something cheap, undifferentiated, and not horrible-tasting that I could simply scoop out of a bag and eat without even looking at it, secure in the knowledge that I was satisfying my nutritional needs. Obviously I wouldn’t eat it for every meal (though you could if you wanted/needed to), but for those meals when I was tired, or in a hurry, or my mind was occupied with other stuff, it would be a perfectly acceptable way to stave off scurvy for another day.
You know, something like Soylent Green, but without the People.
Bachelour Kibble™ = leftovers.
Dude. Cocoa Puffs.
Obviously, you’re no humanitarian! 
You can buy more aluminum foil, silly! But I’d recommend not using it for cooking before you make the hat–that could get a little messy. Teriyaki sauce is hard to get out of your hair.
I’m with the mango crowd–sometimes I eat mangoes or watermelon over the sink. Otherwise, I don’t eat over the sink. If I get takeout, I don’t even eat out of the containers the food comes in–I have to put it on a real plate. Even fast food. Yep, I eat my Chik-fil-a on a real plate.
If I ate over the sink, where would I put my book?
I have a very nice dining room table (with matching chairs and everything), but that’s for company. Usually I eat at the coffee table in front of the TV, but if I’m eating leftovers I’ll eat in the kitchen. Why dirty an extra plate or bowl? Especially if I’m eating the little bit of warmed-up, leftover mac & cheese while nuking a slice of leftover pizza. 
(And why is there just a little bit of mac & cheese left over? Because I was too damn lazy to put the plastic bowl in the sink, so I just stuck it in the fridge. Don’t ask me why the fridge is easier than the sink … maybe because I can ignore what’s in the fridge for longer if I want to. :D)
:dubious: 
I’m a bachelor and I do this from time to time. Not usually for dinner, but often for lunch if its a sandwhich of some sort I’ll eat over the sink. Crumbs go right into the stink bypassing the need for a plate.
The one thing I don’t get, as was mentioned earlier, is eating icecream directly from the carton. I just think thats weird and gross.
My uncle tells of “bachelor salad”: cut a head of iceberg lettuce in half. Put half back in the fridge for tomorrow. Pour salad dressing on the half you’re going to eat. Lean over the sink, and eat your half-head of iceberg lettuce. Bachelor salad!
That’d be Clif Bars for me.
I think these people graduate to eating in line at the buffets in Las Vegas.
Never understood why it is so difficult to wait until you get back to your table, 20 feet away, before you start to eat. Unbelievable to see these people smacking their lips while gobbling shrimp off their plate as they waddle by the prime rib.
But in all my years when I was single, and visitng other single friends, I can’t recall a single time seeing someone standing and eating over the sink.
Ever watch your friends masturbate? Yeah, me neither, but I feel certain they do it.
I’ve been known to enjoy a sammitch over the sink, for the crumby reason already posted. I’ll also make soup and eat that from the pot in which it was nuked. It’s my sink and my sammitch, so I’ll eat over it if I darn well please.
The size of a human what? Those must be some BIG mangoes.
heh… big mangoes
I’ve been known to eat over the sink, directly from the pan with the serving spoon. Nummy.
Well…yes. But I’ve had sex in more places than the bed, and that makes it more enjoyable.
Eating in the kitchen makes the food *less * enjoyable to me, not more.
This is probably the deciding factor for me in the end. When I eat, I like to sit down and relax. Mangoes - put in a movie. Watermelon - curl up with a bowl & a fork (I never, ever eat watermelon with my fingers at home) and a book. Same goes with all other food. There’s no entertainment in the kitchen.
Eh? 6-8 inches isn’t terribly big for a mango… But I do question comparing it to a human liver. I mean, how many human livers have you seen, hmm? :dubious:
I do this all the time. I’m married with three children. This morning I had a yogurt and ate it over the sink. My family has been known to put a place setting - complete with folded napkin, plate, etc, on the counter next to the sink, while their place settings are at the table, just to point out what a barbarian I am.
I think it comes from my fundamental view that food=fuel. And that cooking makes the kitchen messy. Good thing my husband does all the cooking.
No table. No dining room. No space for such.
That being said, I normally eat off of the coffee table while reading or working on computer. I’d reserve the over-the-sink moves for when I’m in a hurry and scooping tuna or salmon from the can with Wheat Thins. Not that I ever do this, of course.
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